Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread • Page 211

I get fed House memes/edits sometimes so it gave me an itch to watch some House and it’s on Prime. Didn’t want to do a full rewatch because I remember season 1 and 2 being more grounded then the more silly/funny/ridiculous of the later seasons so I started around the end of Season 3 to see the original team crumble and been playing an episode or two of season 4 here and there, sometimes even just as background while I do something else. Still very funny.

im surprised it doesn’t seem to be in syndication anywhere, but I don’t know how that works with streamers anymore.

 

iirc, at one point it was on a lot of streamers simultaneously. Prime, Hulu/Disney+, and i think Peacock up until recently.

watched a good handful of episodes during the holidays, but took a break to watch another show my partner wanted to show me. definitely need to throw it on again soon.

 

House had some all-timer great episodes, and even the not-as-good ones were almost never bad. It's the only medical drama I've ever actually spent any significant time on and I enjoyed it front to back. Would watch reruns back in the day even of episodes that were only average.

 

The negative Oscar campaign against him is maybe the funniest one ever.

 

Him disrespecting high-art like that is right in line with our conversation from a little while ago about letting people “enjoy what they enjoy.” That sort of thing is a byproduct of a generation afraid to approach something outside of the algorithm / beyond their understanding.

 

Isn't it also too late for people to vote at this point?

 

Already saw a few celebrities throw shade his way because of those comments lol

 

We have two Oscar™ experts here. They already know who all the winners are.

 

I feel that his comments have been overblown. His point was about saving movie theaters and movies in general. Movies are mass entertainment and they risk becoming jazz or books. That isn't a knock against those artforms or ballet or opera, necessarily.

You are correct, though, in that the general air of "let the adults play with toys" is what causes these things. I think a lot of people on here live in major cities and might not fully appreciate how limited those experiences are. It ends up as a circular problem, as people have no access to them because there is no profit to be made, and then since no one gets to grow up appreciating those things they will always be unprofitable because people don't appreciate them. Now something like ballet and opera is never going to be as big as Transformers or Taylor Swift, but we definitely need a more European-style funding of the arts where these things can operate at a loss and still be experiences for people to enjoy.

 

The great irony, though, is that the role Chalamet is promoting is about a sport that is so obscure that even characters in the movie ask him how he is going to make any money.

 

Yeah I think the original comment was more descriptive than prescriptive.

 

lol

 

is he wrong?

 

Grim’s gonna have a heart attack when he sees Dakota’s photos for Calvin Klein.

 

I feel like it lost a lot of steam in its last season or two. But those early seasons were pretty magical. That two-parter is one of the best two-part episodes I’ve ever seen (or at least it was when I saw it like 20 years ago).

 

It was why I was searching her name.

 

I'd let Dakota Johnson hit Grim with a bus

 

Wow, thanks for this head’s up

 

I’d let Dakota Johnson hit me with an ambulance.

 

i'd let a bus hit me with Dakota Johnson

 

that does seem preferable, if we're just throwin stuff out there

 

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